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If you just could take what you know with you, then the Enigma thing, as well as telling them it's been compromised, would be the ideal quick information.
Just FYI, the Enigma was flawed because no letter could represent itself in a code. That is, say you had the word EACH. It had to encode to something like WMZT, it couldn't be WMCT. This is what allowed the people at Bletchley Park break it, they just stepped through all possible solutions until one where no letter was itself was found, and it was tested by humans to see if it worked.
That, and they ended each transmission with "Heil Hitler", and if you know that, it greatly simplifies the problem. Because all you need to do is solve for the last line instead of the whole message.
And "By order of the Fuhrer" as well. Those aren't necessarily flaws of the device, but PICNIC and ID10T errors by the users.
I would try to end ww2. All it was white people killing white people. WW2 makes me sad. Biggest loss of white life ever.
Oh, that is really interesting. So THAT is what they need the computer for. Brute force.
Wow.
Yes, the Bombe computers were literally just stepping through each possible solution with the rotary encoders.
Was enigma truly flawed? As mainstream history tells me, that the only reason that the Allies cracked it was because the Germans using it got lazy and were taking shortcuts. Had they not taken these shortcuts, the Enigma cipher would have remained uncracked.
If letters could represent themselves, it would have taken a lot more oomph to crack.
This seems like an oversimplification, if the fault of Enigma truly was that it was so overengineered that in actual field use the Germans took shortcuts on the ciphering process that made it crackable.
The Germans are certainly renown for overengineering everything.
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